In many cases, however, Amish children will have little command of the language before entering grade school. Parents or siblings will translate from English to Pennsylvania Dutch for the youngest ones. Since nearly all books are in English, Amish parents will translate to “Dutch” while reading...
We don’t have a realistic winter season to look at yet (here are the calculations I made), as much of the time when the heat pump was on, we had it on full, drying out the house. I could only turn on the MVHR when the work in the house stopped, due to the dust, and so I...
Many moons ago, during our first month living in Prague, I remember exiting Charles University after a Czech language class and looking up at a night-lit Prague Castle and thinking, “My God, do I actually live here?“ It didn't seem real. Even after five years of living in Prague, I...
I have moments where I just think it wasn’t fair (not a lot of moments but I do have them). It isn’t anybody’s fault; not mine, not my parents, or grandparents, not anybody’s…I just drew the straw – Twice! I have moments where I wear my illness like a Purple Heart, an...
A youngest daughter "christened Sarah", since the prosperous Thornhills of Cobham Hall, near Wilberforce NSW, postcode 2756, enjoy a dispensation for the leafy suburbs, to marry and baptise their babies in church without prejudice. And since the spanking new...
Beitthroughcontemplation,prayer,orevenkeepingadiary,manyhavefound thepracticeofquietpersonalreflectionsurprisinglyrewarding,even discoveringgreaterspiritualdepthtotheirlives. 通过冥想,祈祷甚至写日记,很多人发现安静的个人反思可以有惊人的收获, 甚至可以在生活中探寻到自己的心灵更深处。